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Editorial for Special Issue “Expressions of Chinese Christianity in Texts and Contexts: In Memory of Our Mentor, Professor R. G. Tiedemann (1941–2019)” (2025)
Journal Article
Laamann, L., & Lee, J. T.-H. (in press). Editorial for Special Issue “Expressions of Chinese Christianity in Texts and Contexts: In Memory of Our Mentor, Professor R. G. Tiedemann (1941–2019)”. Religions, 16(5), Article 561. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16050561
The Egyptian Revolution Against the Police (2023)
Book Chapter
Ismail, S. (2023). The Egyptian Revolution Against the Police. In B. Ayata, & C. Harders (Eds.), The Affective Dynamics of Mass Protests Midān Moments and Political Transformation in Egypt and Turkey (121-141). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003273882-10This chapter advances the argument that the people’s rising during the 2011 Egyptian revolutionary uprising was directed at the police as an apparatus of government. In developing this argument, the chapter draws attention to the terms in which the a... Read More about The Egyptian Revolution Against the Police.
Revisiting Governmental Violence in Syria: Horror and the Ontology of Human Dignity (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ismail, S. (2025). Revisiting Governmental Violence in Syria: Horror and the Ontology of Human Dignity
Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin (2025)
Journal Article
Mulugeta, D., & Wando, A.-H. (in press). Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin. Journal of Borderlands Studies,This article explores how grassroots Pan-Africanism is lived and practiced in the Lake Chad Basin (LCB), a region where borders function both as instruments of state control and as conduits for transnational connection. Drawing on interviews across N... Read More about Grassroots Pan-Africanism: Border Lives and Transnational Belonging in the Lake Chad Basin.
China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots (2025)
Journal Article
McCausland, S. (in press). China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 88,The Sonia Lightfoot Memorial Lecture given by Shane McCausland on Tuesday 13 February 2024 to the Oriental Ceramics Society at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
A qualitative, case-based outline study toward a critical framework for understandi... Read More about China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings on Pots.